[133] Goodall, ibid.—Freebairn, p. 147.—Whittaker, vol. i. p. 301. et seq.—Chalmers, vol. i. p. 248.
[134] Keith, p. 436.
[135] History of James VI. p. 17. Keith, p. 438.
[136] Melville’s Memoirs, p. 193. Keith, p. 442. et seq.
[137] Throckmorton’s Letter in Keith, p. 444 et seq.
[138] What Mark Antony, according to Shakespeare, said of Cæsar, might be, with propriety, applied to the Earl of Murray:
“You all did see that, on the Lupercal,
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse.—Was this ambition?”
[139] Anderson, vol. ii. p. 251 and 254.—Chalmers, vol. ii. p. 355.
[140] Goodall, vol. ii. p. 66.—Anderson, vol. ii. p. 206 et seq.
[141] Goodall, vol. ii. p. 299, and Chalmers, vol. i. p. 275 and 278.